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So, this is a day late and a few dollars short, but this morning CBC posted my most recent column online. In honour of Super Bowl weekend, I humbly offered an alternative to the oceans of Bud and Bud Light that flood north American bars in early February every year. Of course the game is [...] So after a disturbingly warm season to date, Alberta was smacked with full frontal winter last week. Some complain, but I see it as just part of the price of living in the ungodly north. Bundle up and you are fine. My dogs didn’t even skip their daily walk (albeit we shortened it). I usually [...] For the past couple of months, my CBC columns have not been posted on their website. This is due mostly to RadioActive being a bit shorthanded. It is a bit of a shame, as the rest of my beer personality series got lost as a result. Alas! What can a humble beer columnist do? However, [...] This morning regular CBC Radio listeners would have heard my not-so-dulcet tones on the early side of noon for a change. A reporter for Edmonton AM noticed my post a couple weeks back analyzing why many local independent pubs were not carrying local beer on tap, and they decided to run a story on it [...] This is actually Gabriel Sedlmayr Sr. I failed to find a digital image of Sedlmayr the younger. My CBC column last Friday happened to land on the eve of this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich. It seemed an appropriate time to pull out my books and offer a bit of a history lesson. No, not [...] You shouldn't have to be this guy to find out who made your beer On my CBC column last Friday, I did something a bit out of the ordinary for me. It is something I have been contemplating for a while, and have done in little bits and snippets while discussing other topics. I [...] I have drank my share of big beer over the years. Barley Wines, Tripels, Quadrupels, Eisbocks and so on. As have most of you, probably. But then there is the category of really big beer. Beer that defy traditional definitions of beer. I am talking about the Sam Adams Utopias, the Schorschbrau Schorschbock series, Mikkeller‘s [...] This isn't the beer tent, but it does give you a sense of scale What good is having a blog if you can’t write excessively about things of marginal or no interest to the bulk of the population? Or a beer column in a city weekly paper for that matter? Isn’t “lifestyle journalism” supposed [...] Pretty well everyone here knows my opinion of Lime Beer. So, needless to say, you can imagine my dread when I heard about the Canadian exclusive release of Miller Chill Lemon. Is no fruit safe from their marketing machetes? When the range of Lime beer came out, I felt some moral obligation to inform the [...] I seem to have a theme going these days. Apparently I have a need to admit embarrassing things and re-think long held views on things. My most recent CBC column is a case in point. I, like many beer fans, don’t spend a lot of energy on blonde ales. Yes, they can be very nice [...] |
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